1960s
Carol Lemon Allen (’61 Engl.) and her husband Jim own, publish, and edit an outdoors newspaper in the Southwest. Arizona Boating & Watersports (aka Western Outdoor Times) received the Media of the Year Award from the Arizona Game & Fish Department for 2008. Carol also teaches college English online.
Roger Briscoe (’61 Music) retired as professor and department chair at Raritan Valley College in New Jersey in June of 2008. He is now a senior member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Keith Lincoln (’64 Phys. Ed.) was presented in November with the Alumni Achievement Award from the Washington State University Alumni Association. He was recognized for his professional football career, his 32 years of service as executive director of the Alumni Association, and his vital role in creating the Lewis Alumni Centre. Lincoln retired in 2003 and lives in Pullman with his wife Bonnie Jo.
Bill Stanley (’69 Comm.) recently retired from KSPS Public Television in Spokane after four decades of serving the PBS audience. He joined KSPS after graduating and has served as sports director, producer-director for instructional programming, program director, and station manager. He and his wife Jo Ann plan to travel, golf, and visit family.
1970s
Ronald Marshall (’71 Philosophy) celebrated 30 years in the ministry last June at First Lutheran Church of West Seattle. He also recently had a piece published in International Kierkegaard Commentary titled “Constraining the Berserk: Kierkagaard on Adler and the Ideal Pastor.”
Jim Moll (’72 Comm.) received the Samuel J. Norris Award for Excellence in recognition of his outstanding efforts and commitments in improving the quality of life in the city of Oroville, California. Jim is known as the “Voice of Oroville” for his work as a newscaster for 1340 KORV and for his efforts as an emcee at many local events.
Rod Brooks (’75 Comm.) is vice president and chief marketing officer of PEMCO Insurance in Seattle. He was recently selected by his peers to serve as president of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, a Chicago-based trade organization. Brooks guided his company’s ad campaign “We’re a lot like you. A little different.” Brooks volunteers with organizations including the Seattle chapter of Marketing Communications Executives International, and Washington DECA, which works with gifted high school students headed for business and
marketing. He’s also on the Dean’s Advocacy Board for the WSU College of Education.
Gloria Rivera (’75 Police Sci.) has worked as a city planner and administrator in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Now she’s a senior planner in Lynnwood.
Kevin Tomlinson (’75 Comm.) is a professional cinematographer based in Seattle. For 25 years he has filmed the news and recently he made a feature film, Back to the Garden. The film uses footage of interviews of back-to-the-land hippies from two decades ago as well as recent interviews of people still living in Eastern Washington. The film, in which his subjects are thriving and maintaining the ideals that led them out of the mainstream, has aired at numerous festivals and is available on DVD.
Rich Tomsinski (’78 Bus. Admin.) was appointed to a three-year term on the State of Washington Productivity Board by Governor Chris Gregoire. The board promotes improvements in state agency operations. He is a Deputy Project Director for Washington’s Employment Security Department.
Kim Nicholas (’79 Bact., ’84 DVM) is celebrating the publication of his children’s book A Special Place Called ‘Moholo’. The book is filled with photographs of animals from the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in South Africa. All proceeds from the book will go to support the center. When Nicholas isn’t helping out at the rehab center, he’s at his Renton-based practice, the Cedar River Animal Hospital.
1980s
Bill Sharpsteen (‘80 Comm.) has just published his nonfiction book Dirty Water through University of California Press. The story shows how a Culver City school teacher discovered that Santa Monica Bay was heavily polluted and put together a coalition of environmentalists to clean it up.
Iris Bombelyn (’83 Engr.) received her MBA from the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership in June 2009 and has returned to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale, California as the director for assembly, test, and launch operations test systems.
Duane Bemis (’86 MED) completed his doctorate in Christian Counseling at Vision International University. He has also written a book with his wife Darilyn titled Twice Broken Once Healed. They live and minister in Big Spring, Texas.
Douglas N. Dreher (’87 Hotel and Rest. Admin.) was recently named CEO of The Hotel Group, where he has worked for 20 years and has served as president since 2002. He has overseen more than 70 hotels and over 25 new developments in 15 states and Canada. He lives in his hometown of Edmonds with his wife Maria and two children.
Hans Breivik (’88 Bus. Constr. Mgmt.) is project manager for Quigg Bros. Inc. on the Hylebos Bridge rehabilitation project in Tacoma. The 1939 bridge was damaged in 2001 and has been closed to traffic for years. The hope is to restore it by 2011.
Allison Helfen (’89 Hotel and Rest. Admin.) opened Wine Alley in Renton with her husband Scott in 2005. Their business was recently named “Best Wine Shop” by the KING5 Best of Western Washington contest.
1990s
Kammi Menke Smith (’94 Biochem. ’01 MEd) has been named a “rising Star” by Washington Super Lawyers. Menke Smith is a principal at Winston & Cashatt, a Spokane and Coeur d’Alene-based law firm. Rising stars are 40 or younger and are nominated by their peers. The award criteria include achievements, verdicts and settlements, professional activity, and community service. She focuses on employment litigation and education law.
Scott Peterson (‘95 International Bus.) and wife Korrine celebrated the arrival of their first child Kole Matteus Peterson on July 24, 2009. The Petersons live in Kirkland.
Kali Sakai (‘97 Comm.) and husband Ken Moore welcomed daughter Sidney Katsuko in September. Eugene Sakai (‘66 Zoology) is a proud grandpa.
2000s
Erik Thorleifson (’01 Crim. J., Poli. Sci.) is a new associate at Campbell, Bissell & Kirby, PLLC, a Spokane law firm where he practices in the areas of construction and employment law.
Alex Johnson (‘02 Comm.) and wife Jennifer welcomed their daughter, Olivia Beverly Johnson, on October 13, 2009.
Paris Powell (’02 Bus.) was honored as one of the Vancouver Business Journal’s “Accomplished and Under 40 Class of 2009.” She works as a business valuation manager at Perkins & Company and volunteers with organizations including United Way and the WSU Alumni Association.
Jyotika (Parashar) Younes (‘03 Comm.) and Hazem Younes (‘01 Bus.) welcomed their son Jayden Parashar Younes on October 21, 2009.
Jeremiah Campbell (’05 Spanish, ’08 MEd) and his wife Marjorie have been commissioned by the Assemblies of God Church to work in Bolivia as missionaries. They plan to move there with their young son Judah this summer. There they will work with small children who live in the prison system with their parent because of lack of government programs. Campbell currently teaches high school Spanish in central Washington.
Leah Rouleau (’06 Ed., ’07 TC) and Travis Wright (’07 Ed. TC) were married in June 2009. The couple lives in Pasco.
Stephen Patrick Rawson (’07 Bio.) completed U.S. Navy basic training last summer in Great Lakes, Illinios.
Josh Brown (’08 Ed.) and Leah Stites (’08 Ed.) are planning to be married in April in Sequim, Washington. Josh is currently a helicopter pilot for the US Army and stationed in Alabama. Leah is completing her Masters in school psychology. The couple, who met in high school, will be living in Alabama.
In 2009 sports announcer Bud Nameck was made an honorary alumnus by the WSU Alumni Association for his years work as the Cougar basketball announcer and sideline reporter from the football games, as well as his voluntary service as master of ceremonies at WSU Athletic Foundation events.